Pera Achcharu / Spiced Guava

Spiced Guava is a popular street food in Sri Lanka. We commonly call it as ‘Pera Achcharu’.Not only guava, we like to eat pineapple, mango, ambaralla or even ‘Veralu’ (Sri Lankan olive) with some spices added. I remember, during the school days we used to buy these from street vendors near the school. They dice fruits and add chili, salt and sugar mixture into diced fruits. We could buy a bag of ‘Achcharu’ for few rupees.

Still, I can’t resist the taste. Recently I tried some guava with added chili, sugar and salt mixture. This simple recipe reminds me my good old days and thought of sharing with you all.

Here is the simple Pera Achcharu (Spiced Guava) Recipe.

Ingredients

1 Guava

1 tspn chili powder

1 tspn sugar

1/4 tspn salt or to taste

Method

Wash guava. Cut it into small cubes.

In a bowl, mix chili powder sugar and salt together. Add few drops of water into it and make like a paste/sauce. Add diced guava into this and mix well.

Amila Gamage is the blogger behind Food Corner. She is a Sri Lankan living in Singapore and shares her cooking adventures in this blog. Apart from recipes,you will also find travel,health and kitchen inspirations in this blog. She is a self employed professional and the owner of Sihela Consultants.(www.sihelaconsultants.com) She started writing this blog in 2011 and still continuing.